How the popular and powerful music genre made education in the U.S. more accessible and fun.
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As public spaces for women continue to diminish each day, some Afghan women have transformed a corner of their own homes into a battleground to resist the Taliban’s oppressive rule.
El Busesito (“the little bus”) is a preschool on wheels that delivers free early childhood and family engagement programs to Latino immigrant families in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley.
A student-turned-teacher aims to equip college students with the knowledge to help solve the climate crisis.
A pair of researchers on school violence share three strategies that have been proven to prevent school shootings.
Dekoloniale and other groups are confronting Germany’s colonial past and advocating for a more equitable future.
“The revolution is in the classroom.”
Past generations harnessed state power to penalize educators who dared to teach about injustice. Many of today’s anti-anti-racists rehearse the same old rhetoric for similar ends.
When people forced to flee their homes then arrive in new countries, their efforts to continue with higher education and careers are often stymied.
The elimination of student debt is just the first step in mitigating the pervasive effects of racial capitalism.
Experts on banking, public spending, and education policy look at the impact of Biden’s plan.
Have you ever seen a solar eclipse? A new book for readers of all ages explains the science behind the rare and wonderful event.
Centering schools around the well-being of our students (and their teachers) is the most straightforward path to positive change in the workplace.
Educators Rising is a national program that gets students onto an educational career path while they’re still in high school.
A combination of policy changes and increased safety measures could help reduce the risk of school shootings, says psychology professor Paul Boxer.
When film and television creators feature people of color in their storylines, they often feel compelled to frame them via tragic histories of oppression. But what about simply letting BIPOC characters experience the same joy as their White counterparts?
Amid the heated national controversy about CRT in schools, some Black educators are openly using the framework to help students better understand history and contextualize current events.
“It’s not about the art that’s made in the end. It’s about the process, the discussions, and the relationships that you’re building with the people around you.”
“We can’t afford to let our education systems get in sustainability’s way.”
Stories are the most diverse, innovative, and dynamic technology for social transformation.
There is a long history of right-wing forces fighting against progressive educational curricula. Now, scholars like Robin D. G. Kelley are working to level the playing field against the moneyed political interests behind the attacks.
Female faculty members of color are disproportionately called upon by both colleagues and students to do diversity, equity, and inclusion work—with no compensation for this labor.
Many in this generation are aware of what they have lost by having grown up on social media, so they’re logging off and working to create a safer, healthier future.
Oriel María Siu’s new children’s book explodes the myth of Christopher Columbus as a celebrated explorer and re-centers Indigenous narratives of how the Americas were colonized.
The Algebra Project sprang directly from Bob Moses’ civil rights work in Mississippi, which transformed the state from a segregationist stronghold into a focal point of the civil rights revolution.
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